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After a successful career in his homeland, Sharif would become an international star in 1962 for his portrayal of Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole and directed by the incomparable David Lean. This would earn him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Stabler is best remembered for his days with the Oakland Raiders and was one of the best QBs in the game during the 1970s and was up there with the likes of Roger Staubach, Fran Tarkenton, and Terry Bradshaw. Speaking of the Steelers, if not for Franco Harris catching “The Immaculate Reception” (a.k.a. “The Immaculate Deception”), Stabler would have led the Raiders to one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history in 1972 after filling in for a struggling Daryle Lamonica.

On June 17th, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew shocked many, including former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, when he proclaimed that Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) — the first and foremost Treasury Secretary — would be demoted and share the ten-dollar bill with a yet unnamed woman. Undaunted by wide-spread criticism, Secretary Lew continued to press his case at an event at the Brookings Institution on July 8th. Asked about the ten-dollar bill’s selection, Secretary Lew insipidly claimed that the ten-dollar bill was the “next up” for redesign to help combat forgery. The diminution of Hamilton, for whatever reason, is simply indefensible.

Just how great was Hamilton? A recent scholarly book by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen, Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich, begins its pantheon of greats with a chapter on Alexander Hamilton. It is aptly titled “The Creator.”

In the way of the world, Ann Coulter, who has been out there beating the drums endlessly on illegal immigration, suddenly is at the center of the storm with her bestsellingAdios America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole. The disgraceful tragedy with Kate Steinle and Donald Trump’s attention — Coulter had sent him her book — is now lifting a Coulter appearance out of the normal, if there is such a thing.

You can count that her upcoming appearance that was originally scheduled for the Nixon Library will be huge, with the left doubtless just waiting to show up and disrupt. The event has been moved from the Library to a nearby and larger hotel because of popular demand, and you can imagine what lies ahead.

So if you are in the Anaheim, California area and want to show up to hear Ann’s passionate voice on the hottest topic going and get a book signed — and keep a wary eye on the libs we all know will show up to disrupt — here’s the info:

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest invoked former Klansmen David Duke in response to a House decision to pull the appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior. Earlier in the week, the House had accepted amendments to ban the Confederate flag in cemeteries run by the National Park Service. But the bill was taken back following concerns by some House Republicans that Southern history was being excised.

After the bill was pulled back, House Speaker John Boehner called for an “adult” debate about Confederate symbols. But asking the Obama Administration to have an adult debate is like asking Iran not to engage in anti-Semitism.

In reference to House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, Earnest said, “These are these same House Republicans who voted for a party leader who once described himself as, quote, ‘David Duke without the baggage.’”

Now that he's won his battle against those Tide Pods that supposedly look like candy to small children, who are, apparently, eating them by the millions, Chuck Schumer is taking on yet another threat to your very health and safety, and everything you hold dear in this life and the next.

I suppose that, when you openly solicit donations from entire nations who still think stoning women to death for being raped is an acceptable practice, holding on to a couple hundred thousand from a guy with a big mouth and a penchant for "speaking his mind" about Mexican immigrants barely registers on your radar.

In her first television interview as a Presidential contender, Hillary Clinton (who was not asked what its like being a "feminist" candidate whose family is funded by decidedly oppressive regimes) called Trump's comments that Mexican immigrants are, generally, rapists, inappropriate and expressed her "disappointment" that the Republican Party is not doing more to rein Trump in, because, apparently, that's their job. At no time did she mention that Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka, a successful entrepreneur in her own right, have contributed somewhere in the ballpark of $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton Foundation has no plans to return the money.

That headline should probably read, "Former Rep. Alan Grayson to Run for Senate in Florida Because This is the Best Day Ever, Sorry Democrats."

Dems have been working hard to find an acceptable replacement for Sen. Marco Rubio, who is vacating his seat to run for President. It's not very easy since, after all, the Florida Dems live in Florida, where people get high on bath salts and eat other people's faces, and dudes walk around Miami Beach wearing living snakes as accessories. The last thing they needed was noted crazypants former Rep. Alan Grayson to challenge their hand-picked candidate.

There are many good reasons to oppose a federal school voucher program, but a supposed lack of evidence that school choice improves student outcomes isn’t one of them. Sadly, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking minority member of the U.S. Senate’s education committee, repeated this canard during the debates over a proposed amendment that would have added a federal school voucher program to the No Child Left Behind replacement bill:

What’s more, studies of voucher programs in Milwaukee and the District of Columbia have shown that they do not improve students’ academic achievements, she said. “Study after study has shown that vouchers do not pay off for students or taxpayers,” Murray said.

Thank heavens Hillary Clinton is still absolutely and blissfully convinced that people trust her, otherwise, she might be concerned with how quickly her softball CNN interview was fact-checked.

There weren't any real questions to dodge in Hillary's sit-down, which aired Tuesday on CNN and marked her first interaction with the press in two months, so it's hard to believe that there'd be something so blatantly incorrect said in the first several minutes. According to the former Secretary of State, not a single human being on Earth had a problem with her private email server, all of her emails were available to investigators, who were so unconcerned with her communication, they never even issued her a subpoena.

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